Aware of Body | Calm the Body

5 BE the Listening, the Resting and the Soothing

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At this point, you have experience so much and the change can be overwhelming.  This is normal and perfectly okay. : ) So, what can I do as I feel I need a break?

Objective: To provide yourself with a needed break.

Why this is Important

• It's always important to listen to yourself.  The discourse is grounded in the interpersonal relationship and listening is essential.  You have already listened to your breath.  We're listening to our body.  You can also listen to your thoughts and feelings.  

• Listening and responding is a wonderful way to nurture and love yourself.  Do so will teach you how to love and nurture another.

• As our awareness grows, we stretch our previous paradigm, our perspective changes.  So much change so quickly can be overwhelming.  Maybe you feel like wrapping up in a blanket and just being still.  This is can be very normal as we've live so much of our lives already with less awareness.  Change can be delightful and overwhelming.  So let's rest when we need it.

How Do We Get There?

• • Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing

Steps 1. and 2.   In - Out *1

Steps 3. and 4.    Whole Body - Calm *1

• • Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight*

  • Be Kind, Be Gentle, Be Loving

  • Provide the Space and Time to Rest

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Stop and Listen. : ) 

Sister True Dedication speaks of the importance of listening and how change can come from it.

Stop and Listen | Sister True Dedication 2:51

My awareness has grown so much that I feel I need to stop.

This is very normal and a natural response to experiencing a large amount of change over a short period of time.  So what do we do?

First, celebrate that you've heard this within you.  This is a wonderful opportunity to listen and respond by loving yourself.  In this moment, you don't need to be concerned with the remedy but fill yourself with gratitude for Kindly recognizing this exists within you.

You all ready know how to find the remedy as we have been doing it.  We will sit and begin with mindful breathing.  Next, we'll calm and ease our tensions then we'll Kindly smile to ourselves and Release tension.  At this point, we'll ground ourselves in the realization that we are in the moment and it's a wonderful moment.  

Now we're really ready to listen and hear our need to rest.  We can hear where it's at in our body or mind.  We will breathe in and recognize the calmness and peacefulness our in-breathe.  Then with Kindness, we will listen for the parts of us that feel overwhelmed, or exhausted from the vast changes or just need quiet time.

When we find them, we Kindly recognize them and Gently listen to them tell us just how tired and how overwhelmed they feel. 

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  Hello, overwhelmed feeling, I am hear for you.

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  Gently listen to it.

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  Yes, I hear just how much feel.

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  I am hear to be with you.

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  I'm am sharing my breath with you to sooth you.

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  I'm not hear to get rid of or fix you, but to sooth you so you can rest.

Enjoy the smooth in-breath  -  (share the smoothness of your beautiful in-breath.) 

Be there for yourself.  

Love yourself.

Enjoy the quiet rest you are giving yourself.

There is no rush.  Just BE the rest and soothing.

You may want to this meditation several times before you feel rested and ready for more.  Maybe it's a few consecutive days, maybe for a few weeks or a few months.  Remember, this is a relationship so please Gently listen.  There is no rush and by being there for you, you are doing the most important step for you.  This is a very deep and gentle way of loving.

When you're ready and eager, jump into the next meditation.  : ) 

Collective observations and reflections

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Let's Be There for Ourselves

Mediation is meant to be experienced.  As you progress into your meditation, try to just BE.  

• BE the breathing and the body together.

• BE the breathing, the body and the mind together.

• BE the breathing, the body, the mind and the feeling together.

• Gently BE as you breath.

16 mins.  Two bells @ 2mins.

In  -  Enjoy your Out breathe

Calm your body - Ease your body

Kindly greet your body and Mind  -  Release tensions with your Smile 

Present Moment  -  Wonderful Moment

Enjoy your smooth in-breath  -  Gently listen for the overwhelmed feeling

Enjoy your smooth in-breath  -  Kindly acknowledge the feeling.  

       I am here to be with you.

Enjoy your smooth in-breath  -  I'm am sharing my breath with you to sooth you.

      I'm not here to get rid of the feeling or fix it, but to sooth you so you can rest.

Enjoy your smooth in-breath  -  (share the smoothness of your beautiful in-breath.) 

[ Be there for yourself.  

Love yourself.

Enjoy the quiet rest you are giving yourself.

There is no rush.  Just BE the rest and soothing. ]

Collective observations and reflections

We share and listen.